Illuminates the complexity of people's views on abortion, and shows that opinion has been remarkably stable since the 1973 decision, drawing on a comprehensive and current collection of polls and trends on abortion from major pollsters such as Gallup, Louis Harris and Associates, and CBS. Lacks a subject index. Ladd is director of the Institute for Social Inquiry at the University of Connecticut, and is executive director and president of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Bowman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR